Re: ptrace "fix" breaks ia64

From: David Mosberger
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 00:20:26 EST


[Oops, I promptly forgot to credit Peter Chubb for tracking down this bug.
Mail below is unchanged except for the ChangeLog entry.]

>>>>> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:47:33 -0700, Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

Roland> Sorry. I skimmed all the code and comments for pgd_offset_k
Roland> and thought at the time that it was strictly an optimized
Roland> shortcut for pgd_offset. Clearly I did not understand the
Roland> ia64 code.

>> I suppose we could have a new macro pgd_offset_gate() or
>> something along those lines to accommodate platform-differences
>> in where the gage page lives.

Roland> That seems like the reasonable thing to do. I considered
Roland> just putting all that logic into arch-specific code, joining
Roland> with the get_gate_vma code. But that would leave x86_64
Roland> requiring duplication of the generic version. At least with
Roland> the various arch cases around now, just adding
Roland> pgd_offset_gate is the thing that will allow maximal code
Roland> sharing.

The patch below fixes the problem for ia64 and should have no effect
on x86 or x86-64. Just out of paranoia, I compiled-tested it on x86.

If it looks OK, please apply, Linus or Andrew.

Thanks,

--david

---
Make get_user_pages() work again for ia64 gate area

Changeset

roland@xxxxxxxxxx[torvalds]|ChangeSet|20040624165002|30880

inadvertently broke ia64 because the patch assumed that pgd_offset_k()
is just an optimization of pgd_offset(), which it is not. This patch
fixes the problem by introducing pgd_offset_gate(). On architectures
on which the gate area lives in the user's address-space, this should
be aliased to pgd_offset() and on architectures on which the gate area
lives in the kernel-mapped segment, this should be aliased to
pgd_offset_k().

This bug was found and tracked down by Peter Chubb.

Signed-off-by: davidm@xxxxxxxxxx

===== include/asm-generic/pgtable.h 1.6 vs edited =====
--- 1.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h Wed May 26 07:56:17 2004
+++ edited/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h Wed Jul 7 18:02:20 2004
@@ -122,4 +122,8 @@
#define page_test_and_clear_young(page) (0)
#endif

+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PGD_OFFSET_GATE
+#define pgd_offset_gate(mm, addr) pgd_offset(mm, addr)
+#endif
+
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_PGTABLE_H */
===== include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h 1.43 vs edited =====
--- 1.43/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h Sat Jun 19 07:48:59 2004
+++ edited/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h Wed Jul 7 18:03:55 2004
@@ -321,6 +321,11 @@
#define pgd_offset_k(addr) \
(init_mm.pgd + (((addr) >> PGDIR_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PGD - 1)))

+/* Look up a pgd entry in the gate area. On IA-64, the gate-area
+ resides in the kernel-mapped segment, hence we use pgd_offset_k()
+ here. */
+#define pgd_offset_gate(mm, addr) pgd_offset_k(addr)
+
/* Find an entry in the second-level page table.. */
#define pmd_offset(dir,addr) \
((pmd_t *) pgd_page(*(dir)) + (((addr) >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1)))
@@ -552,6 +557,7 @@
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_WRPROTECT
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MKDIRTY
#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PGD_OFFSET_GATE
#include <asm-generic/pgtable.h>

#endif /* _ASM_IA64_PGTABLE_H */
===== mm/memory.c 1.148 vs edited =====
--- 1.148/mm/memory.c Tue Jul 6 22:19:26 2004
+++ edited/mm/memory.c Wed Jul 7 18:02:29 2004
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@
pte_t *pte;
if (write) /* user gate pages are read-only */
return i ? : -EFAULT;
- pgd = pgd_offset(mm, pg);
+ pgd = pgd_offset_gate(mm, pg);
if (!pgd)
return i ? : -EFAULT;
pmd = pmd_offset(pgd, pg);
-
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